Panels Node override titles

Issue Summary

This is a long standing problem that I have not yet been able to find a workaround for. What I am trying to do seems quite straightforward but how to do it still eludes so I would appreciate any guidance anyone may have on this issue.

I am using panels to node override a "conference" content type. The node content title is something like "Current Conference 2010"
Basically what I am trying to achieve is to populate the page title with the node type (or a custom string) while hiding the main panel title and usign the current node title instead

So in the browser window one would see Conference in the page title area and then the main panel title would be hidden and the node title would read "Current Conference 2010"

If I hide the panel title using the available settings, it hides it from the actual page title as well which is not what I need.

Any guidance would be great . thanks